Domain and Sub-Domain Question

Hosting
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Hi

I have a hosting account with hostmonster which allows me to add a new domain to subdomain folder of the master account.

so in other words I could turn this: http://subdomain.domain.com

into this: http://domain.com

the problem that I’m having, is that after adding the domain to the subdomain directory, visiting the domain page displays a file directory instead of the webpage, in other words the index.html file does not display the webpage automatically, in order for me to display the webpage I have to literally input http://domain.com/index.html

How can i get the index.html to display its content when I just type http;//domain.com and not http://domain.com/index.html

Can anyone help?

thank you

:slight_smile:

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Hi duneglow. Welcome to SitePoint! :slight_smile:

Sorry if this is a side issue, but I don’t get why, if you own domain.com, you are bothering with subdomain.domain.com. Perhaps I’m missing something, but it sounds odd.

It would make more sense if you were redirecting subdomain.domain.com to something like adifferentdomain.com.

Anyhow, it does sound odd that you are seeing a directory. You are sure index.html is actually in there and not somewhere else? Looks like index.html is in the root folder of domain.com but not in the root folder of subdomain.domain.com. But I don’t really understand your setup anyway.

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Better you ask your host to provide a solution to you.

4

I believe you can install a redirect useing htaccess file or vis Cpanel.
That is 1 click job for Cpanel.
It is called “WWW forwardes”

5

That sounds like a problem with the host’s server configuration so the early response to get the host to straighten this out is appropriate.

Regards,

DK